2009 American Music Awards - Michael Jackson

The late ‘Thriller’ singer’s brother Jermaine Jackson paid tribute to the star when accepting the prizes for Favourite Soul/ R’n'B Artist, Favourite Pop/Rock Male Vocalist, Favourite Pop/Rock Album and Favourite Soul/R’n'B Album for his ‘Number Ones’ greatest hits compilation, praising his life philosophy.

Wearing a single white glove in tribute to Michael, Jermaine said: “It’s not just about the winnings, the awards. It’s mainly the message. The message Michael had will live on forever. He saw good in everyone. Start with love and let’s love each other.”

Michael’s wins took him to a record-breaking total of 23 AMAs for his career, however, he failed to win Artist of the Year, the only other category he was nominated in.

The honour went instead to ‘Love Story’ singer Taylor Swift, who was amazed to be handed five accolades, including Favourite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favourite Adult-Contemporary Artist, Favourite Country Album for ‘Fearless’ and Favourite Country Female Artist.
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The film, which opened around the globe Tuesday and Wednesday has already earned rousing praise from fans and critics, who say it restores Jackson’s reputation as a world-class entertainer.
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Journalist Ian Halperin predicted in December 2008 that Michael Jackson would be dead within six months. Exactly six months and one day later, Jackson died suddenly in Los Angeles. Fittingly, the book Halperin was in the process of revising, retitled ‘Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson,’ is out today.

In it, the Canadian author and filmmaker documents the singer’s struggles with charges of child molestation, the author’s assertion that the Church of Scientology was behind Jackson’s brief marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, and Halperin’s own encounter with his subject while working undercover as a hairdresser.

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Good bye Michael Jackson….

The stars came out for the three-day New Orleans, Louisiana event and each artist used their set to pay their respects to Jackson, who died on 25 June (09).

The festival kicked off on Friday (03Jul09) with a brass band providing the soundtrack to a Jackson video montage, with images and footage of the superstar from his Jackson 5 days through to his pop heyday lighting up the screens at the Louisiana Superdrome.

According to a celebrity gossip magazine, Us Weekly, Michael Jackson was set to perform a duet with son Prince, 12, during his upcoming sold-out London concerts.

Stuart Backerman tells to the magazine, “He wanted his kids to see him perform at least once to get the vibe of the Michael Jackson mania.”

Michael Jackson hadn’t hit the stage since a series of 2001 tribute concerts in NYC

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Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him.

At the time of his death, Jackson was rehearsing hard for what was to be his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows at a London arena, with the first set for July 13.

As word of his death spread, MTV switched its programming to play videos from Jackson’s heyday. Radio stations began playing marathons of his hits. Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital. In New York’s Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.

Michael Jackson’s death stuns fans across nation

Across the country, people reacted in stunned disbelief Thursday as word spread that Michael Jackson had collapsed and died. Within minutes of Jackson’s arrival by ambulance at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center people began arriving by the hundreds, the crowd quickly filling a grassy entrance outside the hospital. Overhead, news helicopters whirred noisily and TV trucks clogged streets.

As word spread a few minutes later that Jackson had died, several people burst into tears. Others stood silently, looking pensive, as they waited for official word from the hospital. Still others whipped out cell phones and began calling or texting friends to pump them for information.

at Glastonbury…

As the news of Michael Jackson’s death slowly filtered through the crowds at the world’s largest music festival this evening, there was a feeling of confusion and shock among fans.

Festival goers at Worthy Farm in Somerset, England could not quite believe the news as it was sent by text message and email from friends and relatives on mobile phones.

Fans at the festival are essentially cut off from the outside world and every year rumors and hearsay abound. This means as many as 137,000 people estimated to be attending Glastonbury will take this news with a pinch of salt until they read it in one of the Glastonbury music newspapers which are printed daily.

Currently there has been no official statement from the organizers of Glastonbury to tell fans of the news or to say how they will respond to the entertainers’ death. iReport: Share your memories of Michael Jackson

Jermaine Jackson Gives Statement On michael Jackson’s Death

Goodbye Michael Jackson

Pop icon Michael Jackson and two of his children, Paris Michael and Prince Michael I, walked into a recording studio in Los Angeles yesterday without their masks on, and they look normal.

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Jermaine Jackson has now given the clearest indication yet that the comeback is on and will take place next year, featuring their most famous member.

“Michael will be involved. We want to tour. We want to touch the lives of everybody who’s bought our records and supported us.

“It will probably start here first, but it will be sometime in 2008. That’s our plan”, he told the BBC in a new interview. Discussing Michael’s acquittal on child sex offences in 2005, Jermaine said the five-piece are now “stronger than ever” and “owe” the fans who have supported them through thick and thin.

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Thank’s Nick